Vitaliy Goncharuk

Honored to moderate the panel “Will #AI and #Humanoids Replace Us? The Future of Work and Robotics” hosted by Harvard Business School Club of DC

My prediction for the #1 term of 2026: #INFLATION

@mbrendan1 Working on this @ a19lab

Solve human autonomy, then use that to solve all the rest

#Defense #Ukraine #West National Review has published my very very pragmatic take on #Why and #How to keep postwar Ukraine anchored in the West. I hope you find this article timely Happy to discuss different opinions! nationalreview.com/2026/03/how-to…

@HarvardKennedySchool Sold-out Ukrainian Symposium. Moderated a panel on Ukraine’s reconstruction

Looking at everything happening in the world, I’m more and more convinced every day that my decision to move to the U.S. in 2012 was the right long-term choice. The USA is the best country to live in and invest your time and talent in for the long term!

#SaaS startups = investors #SCAM? Unfortunately, many SaaS startups are starting to look like investor scams: they burn investors’ money building source code (a commodity) and buying leads—creating brutal, often unwinnable competition. Some try to pivot by promising a move to OpenClaw, but that’s a mirage. Corporations can already build the same capabilities in-house. I think the only SaaS niche that will remain defensible is one where all users benefit from a shared, continuously updated knowledge base. Everything else will get replaced by locally run LLM copies, using open-source analogs as a verified “reference design.”

@Avik @Noahpinion So what’s our plan?:)) the main driver - global competition

Really interesting analogy by ⁦@Noahpinion⁩: AI is to humanity what European colonists were to Native Americans. “The day Europeans arrived…Native Americans lost control of their future.”

Proud to contribute to #NATO’s NextGen Information Environment report! Please visit its first public presentation @ the Munich Security Conference!

This weekend I went back to my engineering hacker roots 🙂 Spent it with OpenClaw, Antigravity by Google, etc. Felt like I was 16–20 again 😄 …but with Coke Zero vibes 😅 Main takeaway: If you have no plan to cut 80% of software engineering, management, and ops work through automation, you’re probably listening to outdated tech advisors. Feels like the only real long-term limit to replacing humans with AI from workflows is how much complexity the human brain can hold.

Le Monde (@lemondefr ) quoted me on how to modernize the USA/EU’s defense ecosystems, based on the pros and cons of Ukraine’s experience. lemonde.fr/en/internation…

link - supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-…

My Essay @SCBrain : How #AI #Negotiations Brings Us Closer to a Perfect Market? In the last 3 years, I’ve been applying AI to core economic processes - #Negotiations. My main takeaway: AI Negotiations are replacing humans in the loop, shrinking information asymmetry, and disrupting major related processes - pushing markets closer to a “perfect” market faster than most expect. I recently shared these thoughts with the SupplyChainBrain Think Tank, along with a few related disruptions I expect we’ll see next. You can find the reference in the first comment. P.S. I hope my economics professor will be proud of this essay 😄

@auren In some businesses mba is a red flag

the ROI for almost every MBA program is negative

4 Years of Noncompete :) Yesterday was the last day of my noncompete covering #robotics and #drone #autonomous navigation with Qualcomm , after selling @AugmentedPixels in 2022 :)) It was a great, life-changing deal—thank you, Qualcomm ! At the time I sold the company, I thought that in 2–3 years we’d see a lot of cool products in autonomy. But to my surprise… no. Most “autonomous navigation” companies are just paper tigers with great marketing :( So… I have a plan for @a19labcom :) My inner kid - the one who built wooden RC airplanes and model cars like Geppetto - and the engineer/hacker in me who decoded ICQ protocol in 2001 and created the first messenger(“IM+”) for Nokia phones, can’t wait ;) And I’ll execute it in parallel with my new intellectual passion: AI for Negotiations at @12NewAI - where we’re changing fundamentals of the economy globally ;) Stay tuned :))) Ps. I’m always open to collaborating with great people :) dm me!! :))

@DanielleMorrill @ineffablevc My background is in sensor fusion, but right now we’re working on AI for negotiations—and it’s very much in the real world. That means there are many text-heavy areas where you can build strong defensibility. The deeper you get, the more you understand.

I’m trying to find a truly venture scale startup idea that won’t be commoditized by Claude Code, and it’s pretty clear the “pure” software isn’t enough anymore and this is the thesis of @ineffablevc although I have not been as focused on investing going forward, startups MUST involve the physical world, sensors, complex processes that require nuance it is still difficult to translate into words And that still might not be a big enough moat for very long

If you aren’t working right now on a business that seems impossible, there’s a 99% chance you’ll be a loser in 10 years.

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I did not have Russia telling Mamdani that communism doesn't work on my 2026 bingo card.

#wealthtax France, Brussels, and similar places can prove it: A wealth tax has nothing to do with improving most people’s lives—it’s a populist talking point politicians use to get elected. To prevent it, it’s much more effective to improve people’s lives and educate voters, not argue with politicians on X